Messy Hair

So wot does messy hair say about you?? (by messy i mean backcombed into a birds nest to achieved that 'I've-just-been-dragged-through-a-bush-backwards' look but hey don't I look cool - ah, well here's the thing you don't).
I'll tell you wot it say to me it says: I'm a public school girl, I do art & drama & therefore when I talk I like to express myself with my hands, my daddy wears tweed & takes the dog hunting & shooting at weekends, I wear men's shirts & yet IM A GIRL, I have that Ralph Lauren polo shirt/jumper combo in every colour, I try so hard to look like I've just stepped out of a Jack Wills catalogue, my speech is interspersed with 'Yar' or is it 'Yah' (are you a pirate??) I like to pretend I can play tennis but really I'm seriously malco-ordinated so I play lacrosse instead & wear my hoody to prove it on the beach, I spend my summers in Newquay with my friends who all look like clones & play Jack Penate from my old skwl ghetto blaster on the beach, I have stupid amounts of money - more than I no wot to do with, putting a nice little dent in daddy's credit card is my hobby.
The other day I was sat across from one such person I believe the new term is Sloanie (is it wrong that I feel an immediate dislike upon sight?? - quite possibly) & was marvelling that any1 cud pull off such hair. I assumed it was just one of those I've just got out of bed & happen to look like this kind of things - how wrong I was! My kindly sympathetic friend explained the meticulous painstaking process that goes into creating such a hair-vision. Apparently girl in question has naturally afro hair. So, in order to create messy hair first she must blow dry it, straighten it, before backcombing, scrunching, spraying & then securing mop with oversized clip.
We can only marvel in awe. . . (Sorry for the rant!)


Thought of the day: "Faith is believing when there is nothing else you can do"

Girl Crush

In a follow up to my previous post I was surprised to see that the topic was explored in the Sunday Times Style magazine. In reference to pictures of Maggie Gyllenhaal in Agent Provocateur underwear the journalist writes, "These pictures acknowledge the fact that girls fancy girls. Oh, ladies - but we do don't we? We don't talk about it much - even to our closest friends. But most of us, and I speak here of girls who generally like boys more, have, at some point, harboured a crush on another woman." She goes on to point out that, "Girl-fancying has zero to do with hot lezzer lust you see splashed on the cover of nuts. That's just crude male titillation (what a great word - note to self: use this more in general conversation whatever it may mean!)
Apparently, "The girls we'd go gay for aren't the idealised versions of womanhood that men get off on - they are super-improved versions of ourselves. . .Angelina Jolie (my old school friend listen up!) is a top girl crush because she's powerful, in charge of herself and a wildcat!!"
The journalist finishes with the critical crunch question, "Would we go there? . . . if (your crush) turned up on your doorstep promising to take you places you'd never been before - yes or no?" Places I've never been before?! - it sounds exhilerating! I think my answer would be a resounding yes please!

Thought of the day: "Better to aim for the top and miss than aim for mediocracy and hit"